So for starters, Merry Christmas to all (Except the Germs) and a Happy New Year.

So it's the time of giving and receiving, right? Right??

So forget receiving, we've got lots to give.

I'd just like to say there was a lot of stuff we were not able to finish because we were shorthanded in terms of staff. So I'd like to give a big, big thank you to Nitouryu, who worked his ass off like crazy. He did a lot of work on what we've released, almost something on everything. If you want to help increase the release speed on some of our projects, help out by applying (Click here).

Boku to Issho ch23-24 (!Boku23 & !Boku24 or !BTI23 & !BTI24) - A new project we'll be doing along with MangaScreener, who did the first 22 chapters of the series. This will conclude volume 02. We've already translated the rest of the two volumes so hopefully this'll go by pretty fast!

Buddha v01 (!Buddha1 or !Bud1) - The tale of Buddha told by the God of Manga, Osuma Tezuka. A must read.

Elfen Lied ch102-107 (End) (!EL102 - !EL107 or !Elfen102 - !Elfen107) - And finally, we've finished this project after delay after delay... And we're happy! This was one of our first projects we picked up back in 2005, so this is long overdue. We put in a little something in chapter 103, so go check it out. Big thanks to Kaens & Anath for all their hard work on the series, as they will be closing down Oishii-Manga as of now. We will see what's next after this!

Full Metal Panic Sigma ch21-22 (!Sigma21 & !Sigma22 or !FMP21 & !FMP22) - The conclusion of volume 05 of FMP Sigma. You know, just a random thought, this series could move a lot faster if we had more staff, but I won't bother people with that too much today.

Holyland Volume 07 (Chapters 61-70) (!Holy7 or !HL07) - Here's a few volume of Holyland. Enjoy it.

Jackals ch16 (!Jack16 or !Jackals16) - The conclusion of volume 2 (Finally.) We've scanned & started working (Slowly) on volume 3. Maybe the next chapter released will be soon, maybe not.

Koukou Tough v05-06 (!Tough05 & !Tough06 or !Taffu05 & !Taffu06) - All I have to say is FUCK YEAH MORE TOUGH!! If you have the time, please check this out and vote.

RahXephon v01-03 (!Rah1 - !Rah3 or !Xeph01 - !Xeph03) - So I bought these volumes a few years ago. I don't particularly like the series, to be honest. But someone asked me to scan the volumes. I figured, eh, why not. So here we are...

Sengoku c19 (!Sen19 or !Sengoku19) - Conclusion of volume 02. We sure could use an editor for this right about now...

Sidonia no Kishi 6-7 (!Sido6 & !Sido7 or !Sidonia6 & !Sidonia7) Joint with Vagrant-Scans as usual. We'll try to catch up on ch8 & 9 soon while putting out tanko versions of the chapters we've already released.

All of that made a total of 73 chapters released, which is a little bit more of the 63 we released last year for Christmas + New Years.

At the end of last year, I set a goal of getting to 1,000 chapters released before 2010. We released 707 on New Years. We're currently at 995 chapters released. Das iz gud, ya?

So we're aiming for 1,000 before 2010 comes. Wish us luck.

What the future holds will be addressed on January 1st.

For now, enjoy.

So, yeah, modern day stuff sucks.

We've released the Abandon the Old in Tokyo volume by Tatsumi Yoshihiro (!Abandon) today. This volume contains eight short stories that you definitely should read. These are very good stories. This was scanned by Dille, who also cleans some stuff for Kotonoha, so if you enjoyed this, buy it in English and give him your thanks!

We'll be doing some more old-school stuff in 2010 surely. Stay tuned!

New release today, FMP Sigma ch20. !Sigma20 We'll be doing the series alone again because Sora-Scans is currently busy fighting real life, a commonly known disease scanlators often are affected with. Seriously, the H1N1's got nothing on this bad motherfucker. When they've healed from this awful disease, we'll be working again with them on the series.

Enjoy.

Happy birthday to us! Yaaay.

So we turn four years old today.

I'm supposed to make a big, long post thanking people, but there's just too many people to thank over the years, so I'll keep it short.

Thanks to all of you who've helped us out in some way or manner.

Also, illiteracy, if you're reading this, upload the PSD files, will ya? So that we can hopefully release that volume on Christmas. Plus, Luco_-kun will be mad if you don't ;p

Today's releases:

Koukou Tekken-den Tough Volume 4 (!Tough04) - Welp, 4/42. That's ummm.... 9.5% of the series done. By the way, I've bought volumes of Tough up to volume 19 or 20 or so. If I could get one steady Editor and one steady Typesetter and maybe one steady Proofreader/QCer to work solely on Tough, this project could move along quite nicely. Btw, thanks to our new proofreader/QCer TaskMaster for helping get this volume done. (Hint hint)

Saru Lock Chapter 34 (!Saru34) - Editing is still difficult as hell, we still need help. We are willing to accept a joint with another group if that group can edit adequately. If not, well, we're willing to wait on new applicants and train them, but it doesn't seem likely. So, enjoy this chapter until the next.

Sidonia no Kishi Chapters 4-5 (!Sido4 & !Sido5) - Sorry for the delay on this, this was my fault. I slacked off on doing this series. This is still a joint with Vagrant-Scans. So hopefully ch6 & 7+ won't take too long to release.

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Some info on some series;

Holyland -> Translator is busy all of November, so we won't release until December probably.

Homunculus -> Progressing on volume 10. Volume 11 is scheduled to go for sell in December.

Jackals -> With recent additions in the staff, we've gotten busier with Jackals. ETA for next release, dunno. Won't take too long, I hope not anyway.

Mephisto -> Going to restart working on that soon.

My Street -> Needs a French -> English t/l

REAL -> Volume 9 is going for sell on November 23rd, so I'll be buying it.

Sengoku -> Sorta stalled, of sorts. We're working on other things ahead of it atm.

If you have questions about other projects (Except "WHEN IS X BEING RELEASED??????????????" questions) feel free to ask.

Enjoy.

!MyS6

In other news, nothing!

Our anniversary is in 2 days.

Available on IRC with some fixes here & there in the volume.

!MyS1 is the trigger.

Enjoy.

I'm posting this again because another Editor's left the group tonight.

Now we're down even more people.

So, yeah, we need staff. Just about all positions are needed. No experience necessary and we're willing to train you if you're an Editor.

Apply, and make all of our lives easier.

Thanks. .-,

Write a news post you lazy Latvian.

Jackals 15 (!Jack15)
Saru Lock 33 (!Saru33) our 900th chapter released.

Aiming for 1,000 chapters released by the end of the year---Stay tuned!